Patrick Cantlay Has Perfect Response to Slow Play Controversy After Incredible Hole in One

A plethora of jokes were cracked about Patrick Cantlay’s slow play when he played the 7th hole at Harbour Town Golf Links in perhaps the fastest way possible: by making an ace. 

Fans, media members and even Golf Channel’s commentators added to the firestorm of sarcastic comments, and now Cantlay is chiming in himself.

The 31-year-old is at the center of a heated and ongoing discussion about slow play on the PGA Tour due to his lengthy pre-shot routine, and on Friday afternoon he took to social media to poke fun of his own flaw. 

“Playing faster!” Cantlay wrote on both Twitter and Instagram. 

Aside from tournament photographs, Cantlay doesn’t typically post much to social media. Naturally, when the eight-time PGA Tour winner showed off his sense of humor by acknowledging recent critics, his post quickly went viral. 

On Monday at the RBC Heritage, Cantlay addressed concerns about his pace of play at the Masters after Brooks Koepka called his group “brutally slow.”

“Yeah, I mean, we finished the first hole, and the group in front of us was on the second tee when we walked up to the second tee, and we waited all day on pretty much every shot. We waited in 15 fairway, we waited in 18 fairway. I imagine it was slow for everyone,” Cantlay said of the final round at Augusta National. 

“When you play a golf course like Augusta National where all the hole locations are on lots of slope and the greens are really fast, it's just going to take longer and longer to hole out,” Cantlay continued. “I think that may have been what attributed to some of the slow play on Sunday, and then also when the wind is gusting and the wind is blowing maybe inconsistently, that's when guys will take a long time, too. I think that's just the nature of playing professional golf, where every shot matters so much.”